Security Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,918 1,398 1,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.95% 20.82% 19.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.98% 48.54% 50.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,252 613 828
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,605 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,125 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,308 2,880 3,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 34.40% 42.90% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,166 1,258 1,643
10th Percentile £29,775 £30,932 £30,505
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +8.00% +4.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,643 £81,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £54,894 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.51% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire 0 664 £55,000 -15.38% 111
Bristol +8 610 £64,500 +12.17% 179
Wiltshire +5 391 £51,000 -7.27% 106
Dorset +2 142 £42,500 -19.05% 27
Somerset +11 71 £30,385 -32.80% 43
Devon -52 22 £49,000 +28.01% 50
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 89 (4.64%) Confluence
2 44 (2.29%) Apache
3 38 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 35 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.67%) ArcGIS
7 27 (1.41%) GeoServer
8 18 (0.94%) nginx
9 17 (0.89%) Jupyter
10 15 (0.78%) SharePoint 2010
10 15 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
11 13 (0.68%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.10%) JBoss
13 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.10%) WildFly
14 1 (0.052%) Moodle
14 1 (0.052%) MS Project Server
14 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 52 (2.71%) Simulink
2 51 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.31%) Trello
6 4 (0.21%) Sketch
6 4 (0.21%) Stateflow
6 4 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.10%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.052%) 1Password
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.052%) Revit
Business Applications
1 43 (2.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (0.94%) Maximo
3 4 (0.21%) Primavera
3 4 (0.21%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.052%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.052%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 370 (19.29%) AWS
2 347 (18.09%) Azure
3 99 (5.16%) OpenShift
4 77 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (2.82%) GCP
6 44 (2.29%) SaaS
7 34 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.41%) IaaS
8 27 (1.41%) PaaS
9 25 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (1.30%) Serverless
10 24 (1.25%) Power Platform
11 23 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (1.15%) Amazon S3
13 21 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (0.89%) MinIO
15 9 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (0.42%) OCI
16 8 (0.42%) Power Automate
17 7 (0.36%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.64%) Firewall
2 54 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 50 (2.61%) WAN
4 44 (2.29%) Network Security
5 42 (2.19%) DNS
6 37 (1.93%) DHCP
6 37 (1.93%) LAN
7 34 (1.77%) HTTP
8 28 (1.46%) VSAN
9 26 (1.36%) Wireless
10 25 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
11 23 (1.20%) AMQP
11 23 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (0.94%) SAN
13 13 (0.68%) Ethernet
13 13 (0.68%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.63%) BGP
15 9 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
15 9 (0.47%) Internet
15 9 (0.47%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.18%) Big Data
2 42 (2.19%) MongoDB
3 39 (2.03%) GIS
3 39 (2.03%) Hadoop
4 38 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.41%) QGIS
7 21 (1.09%) Power BI
8 18 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.89%) Cloudera CDH
9 17 (0.89%) Presto
10 14 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.57%) MySQL
12 10 (0.52%) Tableau
13 9 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.36%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 140 (7.30%) JIRA
2 108 (5.63%) Git
3 86 (4.48%) Visual Studio
4 84 (4.38%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.08%) Sourcetree
6 51 (2.66%) Rational DOORS
7 47 (2.45%) Jenkins
8 35 (1.82%) GitLab
9 20 (1.04%) LabVIEW
9 20 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
10 17 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.42%) NetBeans
12 7 (0.36%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.36%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.36%) Selenium
12 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.36%) Subversion
13 6 (0.31%) Rational Team Concert
13 6 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 286 (14.91%) Aerospace
2 274 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 168 (8.76%) Finance
4 131 (6.83%) Games
5 114 (5.94%) Military
6 99 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
8 88 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (4.54%) Public Sector
10 48 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.24%) Retail
12 38 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.04%) Electronics
16 13 (0.68%) Legal
17 10 (0.52%) Aviation
18 8 (0.42%) French Language
19 7 (0.36%) Publishing
20 5 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 324 (16.89%) Senior
2 255 (13.30%) Software Engineer
3 190 (9.91%) Architect
4 162 (8.45%) Developer
5 161 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 146 (7.61%) Consultant
6 146 (7.61%) Systems Engineer
7 141 (7.35%) Lead
8 97 (5.06%) Project Manager
9 88 (4.59%) Security Consultant
10 87 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
11 84 (4.38%) Support Engineer
12 79 (4.12%) Analyst
13 78 (4.07%) Administrator
13 78 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
14 76 (3.96%) 3D Developer
14 76 (3.96%) Games Developer
14 76 (3.96%) Unity 3D Developer
15 73 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
16 62 (3.23%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (5.01%) React
2 80 (4.17%) .NET
3 76 (3.96%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 52 (2.71%) AngularJS
5 43 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
6 36 (1.88%) CSS
7 35 (1.82%) Node.js
7 35 (1.82%) Spring
8 33 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
8 33 (1.72%) REST
9 32 (1.67%) .NET Core
10 28 (1.46%) Spring Boot
11 27 (1.41%) Leaflet
11 27 (1.41%) OpenLayers
11 27 (1.41%) PostGIS
12 26 (1.36%) JSON
12 26 (1.36%) XML
13 25 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
14 22 (1.15%) TensorFlow
15 21 (1.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.28%) Management Information System
2 76 (3.96%) Virtual Reality
3 70 (3.65%) Driving Licence
4 59 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 54 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 38 (1.98%) Private Cloud
6 38 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 36 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 34 (1.77%) Data Centre
10 34 (1.77%) PKI
11 33 (1.72%) Cyberattack
11 33 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
12 26 (1.36%) Product Ownership
13 20 (1.04%) Robotics
14 17 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (0.78%) FPGA
15 15 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 454 (23.67%) Linux
2 277 (14.44%) Windows
3 98 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (3.60%) CentOS
4 69 (3.60%) Windows Server
5 53 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
6 50 (2.61%) Windows 10
7 43 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 43 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 42 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (1.30%) Ubuntu
10 21 (1.09%) Debian
11 20 (1.04%) Unix
12 17 (0.89%) Windows 7
13 13 (0.68%) AIX
14 10 (0.52%) Android
14 10 (0.52%) CoreOS
15 6 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.21%) Solaris
17 3 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (28.47%) Agile
2 393 (20.49%) Software Engineering
3 355 (18.51%) DevOps
4 340 (17.73%) Actionable Insight
5 284 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 220 (11.47%) Scrum
7 196 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
8 188 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
9 183 (9.54%) Project Management
10 182 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 144 (7.51%) ITIL
11 144 (7.51%) Systems Engineering
12 143 (7.46%) UML
13 126 (6.57%) Validation
14 116 (6.05%) Mentoring
15 115 (6.00%) Information Assurance
16 113 (5.89%) Risk Management
17 105 (5.47%) CI/CD
18 104 (5.42%) Full Stack Development
19 96 (5.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 431 (22.47%) Python
2 227 (11.84%) Java
3 196 (10.22%) Bash
4 155 (8.08%) JavaScript
5 138 (7.19%) PowerShell
6 136 (7.09%) C#
7 113 (5.89%) C
8 95 (4.95%) SQL
9 70 (3.65%) MATLAB
10 59 (3.08%) C++
11 56 (2.92%) Rust
12 50 (2.61%) Embedded C
13 38 (1.98%) TypeScript
14 30 (1.56%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.25%) Ada
16 14 (0.73%) R
17 13 (0.68%) Go
18 8 (0.42%) Perl
19 6 (0.31%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 906 (47.24%) SC Cleared
2 609 (31.75%) DV Cleared
3 364 (18.98%) Degree
4 266 (13.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 52 (2.71%) CISSP
7 51 (2.66%) CESG Certified Professional
8 50 (2.61%) CISM
9 37 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.72%) CRISC
11 26 (1.36%) CCNA
12 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.99%) A+ Certification
13 19 (0.99%) CCNP
14 16 (0.83%) HNC
15 15 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.73%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.68%) CISMP
17 13 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (3.02%) NIST
3 57 (2.97%) NCSC
4 34 (1.77%) SLA
5 29 (1.51%) NIST 800
6 24 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 23 (1.20%) JSP 440
8 21 (1.09%) RMADS
9 20 (1.04%) QA
10 19 (0.99%) Def Stans
11 17 (0.89%) IEC 61508
12 14 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.57%) Accessibility
15 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.52%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.47%) GRC
17 8 (0.42%) GDPR
18 7 (0.36%) MISRA
18 7 (0.36%) TickIT
System Software
1 192 (10.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 153 (7.98%) Docker
3 137 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 86 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 42 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (2.19%) vSphere
6 26 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 22 (1.15%) Firmware
8 8 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (0.36%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.21%) XenApp
11 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
11 3 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 242 (12.62%) Ansible
2 183 (9.54%) Kubernetes
3 118 (6.15%) Terraform
4 115 (6.00%) Puppet
5 60 (3.13%) SCCM
6 38 (1.98%) vCenter Server
7 23 (1.20%) Grafana
7 23 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.89%) HAProxy
9 16 (0.83%) Nagios
10 15 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.63%) Backup Exec
12 12 (0.63%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.36%) Kibana
15 7 (0.36%) WSUS
16 6 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
16 6 (0.31%) Icinga
Vendors
1 338 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 224 (11.68%) VMware
3 135 (7.04%) Red Hat
4 94 (4.90%) Cisco
5 67 (3.49%) Oracle
6 47 (2.45%) Google
7 44 (2.29%) IBM
8 43 (2.24%) Sparx
9 34 (1.77%) SolarWinds
10 33 (1.72%) ESRI
11 21 (1.09%) NetApp
11 21 (1.09%) SaltStack
12 18 (0.94%) Citrix
13 17 (0.89%) EMC
13 17 (0.89%) Veeam
14 16 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.73%) Splunk
16 13 (0.68%) Hitachi
16 13 (0.68%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.63%) Veritas